Basketball beefs never sleep, even in mid-August, when the NBA calendar is slowest, so naturally Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler are “feuding” over an Instagram picture of Gabrielle Union in a bikini.

Here’s how it started: Union, the actress who has been married to Wade since 2014, posted the picture to Instagram while the couple is on vacation in Venice, Italy. These are the things celebrities do.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Here’s what celebrities don’t usually do: Catcall their friends’ wives publicly on Instagram. Or at least that’s what they should probably not do if they would like to remain friends. Jimmy Butler, who played one season with Wade on the Chicago Bulls, posted this comment under Union’s photo: “WELL DAMN!!”” data-reactid=”35″>Here’s what celebrities don’t usually do: Catcall their friends’ wives publicly on Instagram. Or at least that’s what they should probably not do if they would like to remain friends. Jimmy Butler, who played one season with Wade on the Chicago Bulls, posted this comment under Union’s photo: “WELL DAMN!!”

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Jimmy Butler had something to say to Gabrielle Union on Instagram.

Wade first planted his flag for the chorus who joined Butler to see …

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Dwyane Wade lets Instagram know Gabrielle Union is taken.

… and then the future Pro Basketball Hall of Famer took aim at Butler:

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Dwyane Wade has some advice for Jimmy Butler on Instagram.

“Put well damn in caps on my wife photo again,” Wade wrote in an SIC-laden comment on Butler’s Instagram page, “and you’re gonna see what the good, the bad and the ugly is like.”

I have many questions, but first: Would Butler have been OK had he not wrote it in all caps?

Then again, Butler has tried to get Wade into trouble with his wife before …

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… so we’ll just assume this beef is authentic, because it’s all we’ve got on Aug. 17. This is, of course, the most important NBA story you’ll read the day. You can carry on with less important news now.